Sack holder



July 10, 1928. 1,676,852

S. C. BRANUM SACK HOLDER Filed Oct. 5, 1926 L Y I M /wv)k n ATTORNEY,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFER.-

SOLOMON C. BRANUM, OF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF -TO' J OE E. MASON, OF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

SACK HOLDER..

Application filed October 5,1926. Serial 1N0. 139,680.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and cheap device adapted particularly for the use of cotton pickers to enable the sack to be carried thereby and at the 5 same time have the mouth or upper'end held open so that the cotton may be readily deposited therein.

'With' this object in view, the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the invent-ion applied in operative position.

vice per se.

The holder is preferably made of a single strand of spring steel Wire bent at an inter mediate pointto provide a crotch 10 of which the legs 11 are of arcuate form and arranged in divergent relation, the strand being bent downwardly at the ends'of the legs 11, as indicated at 12, and then again bent to provide the two lateral arms 14 which are of arcuate form and extend in opposite directions from the crotch, terminating in inturned portions 15 from which extend the vertical leg portions 16 which are terminated in horizontally arranged loops 17. The downwardly turned portions 12 a a plate 18, coiled around them as indicated at 19, this plate bracing the holder in the 0 region of the crotch 10.

end of thesack and the upper edge brought Figure 2 is a perspective view of the de- In use, the device is inserted in the open a up to the plane vof the loops17, the edge portionat one point being forced down into the crotch 10, and at other points being folded over the loops17 as shown in Figure 1. The strap 20 for supporting the sack on the-shoulder of the operator is threaded into the loops 17 from wh ich it may be readily disengaged when the sack is filled and the spreader or opener withdrawn therefrom.

The invention having been'described, what is claimed as new and useful is: e

1. A device for the purpose indicated hav ing a vertically arranged section defining a crotch, arms extending from said section and terminating 1n upstanding leg portions hav ing horizontally arranged loops at their upper ends.

a 2. A device for the purpose indicated having a vertically arranged section defining a crotch, arms extending from said section and terminating in upstanding leg portions having horizontally arranged loops at their, upper ends, the loops being arranged 1n a plane parallel with the plane of the arms.

3. A device for the purpose indicated hav- 7 ing a vertically arranged section defining a crotch, arms extending from said section and terminating in upstanding leg portions hav ing horizontally arranged loops at their upper ends, the loops being arranged in a plane parallel with the plane of the arms and the latter being ofarcuate form.

ture.

SOLOMON o. BRANUM.

In testimony whereof he atfixe's his signa- 

